Physician Consideration of Patients' Out-of-Pocket Costs in Making Common Clinical Decisions
By Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH; G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS; Ann S. O'Malley, MD,
For more than 20 years, PNHPās Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. wrote a daily health policy update, taking an excerpt or quote from a health care news story or analysis and commenting on its significance to the single-payer movement.
PNHP has archived Dr. McCanneās listserv below; to read current daily analysis on a broad range of health justice topics, please visit the McCanne Health Justice Monitor website.
TPMCafe on Jonathan Cohn's "Sick"
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price
www.sickthebook.com
By Jonathan Cohn
TPMCafe Book Club
Health care: The case for thinking
TPMCafe on Jonathan Cohn’s “Sick”
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price
www.sickthebook.com
By Jonathan Cohn
TPMCafe Book Club
Health care: The case for thinking
Australia’s Medicare and private plans
The private life of health care
By Ruth Pollard and Mark Metherell
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 6, 2007
In just 10 years, the health system many were dreading
Australia's Medicare and private plans
The private life of health care
By Ruth Pollard and Mark Metherell
The Sydney Morning Herald
April 6, 2007
In just 10 years, the health system many were dreading
Insured, but claim can be denied for recreational injury
Legislation to Protect Health Insurance Benefits for Motorcyclists Introduced in Congress
Business Wire
April 2, 2007
U.S. Congressmen Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and Bart Stupak (D-MI) have
Uninsured have increased rates of stroke and death
Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Death -- Does Insurance Matter?
By Angela Fowler-Brown, Giselle Corbie-Smith, Joanne Garrett and Nicole Lurie
Journal of General Internal Medicine
April, 2007
OBJECTIVE:
Can we set ideology aside?
Health care system can't be fixed without teamwork
By Alice Rivlin (Brookings Institution) and Joseph Antos (American Enterprise Institute)
Post-Bulletin
March 29, 2007
We cannot stop the inexorable rise
Pew report on political values and core attitudes
Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007
The Pew Research Center
March 22, 2007
This highly credible report does confirm that there has been a genuine shift
Administrative costs of tax credits
Administrative Costs for Advance Payment of Health Coverage Tax Credits: An Initial Analysis
By Stan Dorn
The Commonwealth Fund
March 2007
One of the more important objections that many
Association-sponsored coverage plummets
Health insurance options dwindle for self-employed
Group plans are being dropped or becoming unaffordable to many.
By Lisa Girion
Los Angeles Times
March 27, 2007
A major source of health
The Sacramento Bee on pooling risk
Editorial: Coverage for all
The Sacramento Bee
March 25, 2007
The state regulator of HMOs has fined one of the largest, Blue Cross, $1 million for canceling health